“Lookin’ to push the boundaries of truth using the truth that there are no boundaries and for people to walk away unsure they’re the same person as when they walked in.” — Me

“It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky

WORDS

Despite being from easy-going New Zealand, St. John’s work often focuses on what John Wilkes Booth called ‘the worser angels of our nature’.

In the U.S. (mainly New York City), multi-discipline pieces featured at The Brick Theater, Triskelion Arts, The Hollows Gallery, DCTV, The Sunview Luncheonette, Rooftop Films Film Festival, Video Art Net Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, and Radio Free Brooklyn, alongside unauthorized, site-specific performances at public spaces such as the Trump Building and New York Stock Exchange.

Winner of the 2018 Rooftop Films/DCTV Film Grant.

In Europe, performance and installation pieces in Hungary featured at Juranyi Haz, Szeszgyar, and 2021 Kolorado Festival, as well as an audio/performance piece commissioned in 2020 by Noise ’n’ Roses. Premiered a performance/human installation piece at the 2021 Reykjavik Fringe Festival in Iceland. Audio piece also commissioned by Cashmere Radio in Berlin.

Alongside his artwork, St. John is the co-founder/runner of two non-profit art and community spaces in Budapest, as he is now based in not-so-easy-going Hungary. SORRY, NOW ICELAND … SORRY NOW MEXICO … SORRY NOW AUSTRALIA … IT’S HARD TO KEEP UP WITH MYSELF. AND SINCE I WAS OTHERWISE AMUSING MYSELF BY BEING KEPT IN AN IMMIGRATION PRISON IN FLORIDA (true) AND STRAPPED FACE DOWN TO A GURNEY IN A JAIL CELL IN POLAND (true) I WENT OFF THE CREATIVE RAILS THERE FOR A BIT, BUT …

In Australia, 2023 public performance naked on a beach in Perth and 2024 in a dog cage in inner city Melbourne. New theatre piece at The Butterfly Club, May 2024, then that show in October 2024 Melbourne Fringe Festival at Motley Bauhaus & Mission to Seafarers.

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